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Astrologers have their hackles up about the skies this month and into the new year, as well they might. We’re into an amazing celestial tour-de-force with a weakened, retro Mars drifting off opposite a suddenly-changing general skyscape, which includes both Jupiter and Pluto stepping into Capricorn after tripping over the Galactic Center (not quite 27 Sagittarius), along with the lunar nodes changing from their Pisces-Virgo to Aquarius-Leo just a couple of months after Saturn made its switch along that same Leo-Virgo border. Altogether, it’s a real sea change, or maybe more like the change where a roaring river or estuary cascades into an advancing sea tide (think Columbia River in the U.S.A., or the Severn in the U.K.), replete with rapids, undertow, tidal bores, whirlpools, and riptides. Too many planets making too many changes in too small a timeframe. The door into winter this year is crowded, indeed.

What does it all mean? Whenever you narrow the pipe and raise the volume going through it, Boyle’s Law (cooked up way back in 1662 by Robert Boyle and his buddy Richard Towneley) will tell you the pressure increases proportionately, and simply going to a sale at Macy’s or the mall will tell you it’s a shoving match getting through the door. Expect to get caught off balance a lot, as events elbow their way through without thought for the consequences. The most intense days will be from December 18-22 when Jupiter, the nodes, Mercury, and Sun change signs. Another particularly narrow passageway will be the weekend of December 29-30 when Mars backs into Gemini on an exact T-square with Pluto and the Moon, leading into a single bottlenecked trading day Monday, with the markets shut down the next day for New Year. The betting table will be full on this New Year’s Eve, be sure…

Although this may be a jouncing ride leading into a year of real action instead of last year’s frothing but penultimate imprecations (Jupiter and Pluto in Capricorn now mean business, not talk), it could still be more intense. As all these planets tumble over the Galactic Center and through the door into winter, it will still take them a few days to accomplish it. In another two hundred years, thanks to precession, the GC and zero Capricorn will be at exactly the same place. That will be a jammed doorframe, indeed…until then, happy holidays to all!

If October was an invasion by Mars speeding into Cancer, this November marks that planet’s high-water mark and the beginning of a long winter retreat. At mid-month the planet of action halts its advance at the middle of Cancer to begin a withdrawal all the way back to where it was in mid-September. So, get your last licks in during the first two weeks of November while making ready to re-tread some of the ground you gained at summer’s end. That doesn’t mean wholesale abandonment of your position, just an editing of your energies and direction, just as you would edit your ideas during a Mercury retro period. This one lasts until the beginning of February, so dig in and take your time. It will be frustrating for those expecting rapid advances, but sustaining if you choose to consolidate your gains. By April, the pause will be over and Mars will be back into new territory.

In the meantime, it’s isolated in the sky, opposite the rest of the planets except for a monthly visit from the Moon. In fact, the two-year cycle of Mars retro always comes when it’s roughly opposite the Sun, by definition, but this time everything else is generally opposite as well. Now is the time for lessons learned about the bridge too far. Rash actions taken as Mars is about to go retro usually end up in overextension and delay, such as Hitler’s invasion of Russia only two months before Mars went retro in the summer of 1941, the Allied invasion of Italy which hit a dead stop at Monte Cassino (summer of 1943), and but for the atom bomb, the same would have again applied to an invasion of Japan in the summer of 1945. 

That big red thing rising around midnight and culminating just before dawn is Mars – it’s nearing its closest approach to Earth and a great view in a backyard telescope, but there’s more to it than that. It’s also the handle of a celestial bucket chart that emphasizes its influence and is barreling along through Cancer like there’s no tomorrow. Except that there is, and it’s going to come to a screeching halt in mid-November, ushering in a long and frustrating retro period that lasts well into the winter.

But for now, it commands the skies and what’s happening beneath them, so the urge is to go-go-go even when you’re going a bridge too far. That’s what happened the last time (two years ago) when big pushes in Iraq made it look like we were going somewhere, but then it all bogged down and the “swamp” image surfaced for the first time since Vietnam. Expect it to happen again, as the current “surge” fades away. But the same logic applies to the rest of our lives, so don’t count your chickens this month based on the burgeoning possibilities that seem to be at hand. The trick is to take action but don’t overstretch your supply lines or take on more than you can handle.

Also hanging in the sky is a Jupiter-Uranus square which makes for lots of sparks and new possibilities, but watch out for diminishing returns when you get down to the nitty-gritty. Squares tend to waste time that way. Mercury goes retro on the October 11, so make the usual accommodations and spend the rest of the month editing and fine-tuning your operations (or, in the case of new ones, expect change down the line). The watchword for the month is change, with Saturn just into a new sign, and Jupiter and Pluto headed for a joint shift framing the New Year. Nothing is settled quite yet, no definite direction yet determined, so hang on to your hat but keep your feet on the ground.

Our fire-and-air graphic for August painted a sadly true picture from burning Western forests to all of Greece aflame except for unexpected flooding (only Uranus was in water). This month also remains largely waterless but an abiding earth presence returns as Saturn moves into Virgo, much to the relief of weary Leos.

Although Saturn changing signs is the big news of the month, it’s still silly season until past the solar eclipse of September 11th in the belly of Virgo, part of a fractious T-square with Mars and Pluto, so expect some conflict and shifting positions until that’s over. That Mars-Pluto opposition, intensified by Pluto going direct on the 7th, makes daily T-squares with the Angles and blows up into an out-of-element grand cross at the full Moon of the 26th, so expect a little madness (of both crazy and angry kinds) around that time as well.

If Mars moving at breakneck speed through Gemini makes for problems it can also be part of the solution through its grand air trine with Mercury and Neptune midmonth, perhaps providing a peaceable outlet for crazy Martian energies. Turning idealistic possibilities into active realities can turn that T-cross energy into something creative and vital.

Still, the forecast remains dry, again with only Uranus in water (more storms) and only the Moon occasionally in water signs until the end of the month when Mars joins Mercury in adding some much-needed moisture and feelings into the mix.

Summer may have been late in coming for some, with July skies still replete with both earth and water, but as August moves in it all dries up, so anything you need done with your feet on the ground or some semblance of sensitivity should be taken care of by the end of the first week. Within the four days Aug. 4-8, Mercury moves out of watery Cancer into Leo and Mars flees earthy Taurus for some Gemini air, gracelessly squaring Venus backing out of Virgo into Leo, leaving the sky earthless and – except for Uranus – waterless. Hot and thirsty, pedal-to-the-metal summer has arrived. Only the Moon provides the occasional respite, with retro Venus herself in a last uncertain embrace with Saturn as he finally makes his move to Virgo.

Meanwhile, all the planets conspire to flee Mars, who dominantly becomes the bucket handle of action, swinging the rest of the sky for the rest of summer and all the way through the fall, where he turns retro and bogs down after going a bridge too far. Impetuosity rules, then reaps its usual rewards after tripping over two eclipses, one kicking near Saturn at his last lordly Leo degree with Regulus, and the other right opposite explosive Uranus, as August passes into September. Labor Day/Bank Holiday weekend falls right at the heart of the action. Lots of surprises, especially for those who forgot to check their brakes, which could be most of us.

Mars in Taurus, Sun in Cancer, provide a peaceable moment to dig in...

As Saturn moves out of opposition to Neptune this month, it will spend the time hanging around Venus instead, a conjunction which will be in every July birthday’s solar return, meaning a coming year of learning to love the old guy instead of distrusting him. Further, Mars in the sign of Taurus the bull gives everybody a surer foot on the ground, a relief after a June of fire and air and hardly any earth at all. It will be a secure feeling to enjoy some warm Cancer water and solid Taurus earth to sink your heart and feet into. Earth and water – it’s what your body’s made of, so it’s the perfect time to get in touch with your inner primordial ooze, slap on a mud pack, or just go to the beach, where our ancestors crawled out of the sea!

However you choose to go about it, enjoy and take advantage while you can, because August will roll back to a hot and dry, totally fire and air picture, with both earth and water scarce, indeed. Very high-speed – great for action but not for traction. And that’s just the beginning of a forming Mars bucket that will soon begin to dominate the sky all the way into the winter, as it surges through three signs and then hangs retrograde in Cancer and Gemini. So, all endeavors to make forward progress and then dig in to a firm position this month will be worth the effort down the road. Once Mars begins to ring the changes in August, it will be hard to keep up with it all if you don’t have a prearranged platform to refer back to. The dizziest days will whirl around Labor Day weekend, framed by two eclipses thrown into the mix. 

So be bullish about July, embrace the pull of gravity tying you to your planet, paw the ground and mark your territory, as who knows what stampedes will be on when late August's dog days begin to bark...

June editorial:

Venus tangles three times with Saturn, until  he moves out...

June’s big news is that Saturn and Neptune will be having their last opposition of this generation. This is the “third pass” – it’s happened twice already, and these slow aspects happen in threes, with one retro pass, two direct. With two such totally inimical planets tangling in hard aspect, they tend to bring out the worst in each other – in this case a sea of lies and self-delusion from the establishment countered with self-absorption and apathy from the public, general paralysis. On an individual basis, that tends toward treachery where you expect reliability and disillusionment with dreams that have lost their promise. It's hard to know what direction to follow. A lot has been written on the history of it, but here’s one you may have missed.  Fortunately, Saturn starts to pick up speed and hightail it out of Leo and on to a last set of mischief in Virgo until it finally opposes Uranus in 2009, gets inside the outer planets and stops bucking progress. Lots more damage to be done before that happens.

This month, however, lets you in on the good side of Saturn as the first week is aglow with a grand fire trine with Mars and Jupiter, which then moves on in the second week to another with Mars and Pluto. Both are great for getting fired up over achievements, but don’t forget that Neptune still lurks in the heart of it, so look for the canker worm before you swallow it whole. Venus moves into a long spin in Leo, when she will be doing her own retro dance with Saturn, providing a lot of summer solar returns with belt-tightening but highly intense Venus-Saturn conjunctions, twice in Leo, and then again in Virgo.  Another celestial set of three.

Illusions...

Something's going to happen but they don't know what it is...

The heads-up message for this merry month of May may be heads-off! That’s because in the midst of this spring season of grand fire trines mixed with T-crosses, spinning off the remaining trine of Jupiter and Saturn and the opposition of Saturn and Neptune, the new Moon of May 16 (25° 33’ Taurus) falls within under a degree of the direst of fixed stars, Caput Algol (the Gorgon’s Head), an eclipsing double star in the process of celestial suicide, long-associated with beheadings and hangings, or losing your head in general. The lunation happens directly square to Saturn and Neptune in their final opposition dance of the decade, an ill match which has highlighted destructive delusion, especially in high places (Saturn, Leo) and mass culture (Neptune, Aquarius). A long season of wishful lethargy encouraged by deliberate illusions is coming to an end, and you can expect heads to roll as a result, hopefully clearing the air for saner behavior in the aftermath.

The trick, of course, is to make sure the head that rolls isn’t yours. In a time with lots of promising trines that should be easy, except that they are always tied to that Saturn-Neptune dance, just like the T-squares. All month, the Jupiter-Saturn trine turns into a grand trine with the Ascendant (well before dawn) or Midheaven and (mid-morning), so those are the times to move, keeping in mind the tagged-on opposition. Even more than April, now it’s the early bird that gets the worm. Later in the day, the opposition becomes a difficult T-square with Ascendant or MC around early afternoon and then early evening, so lunch and dinner are probably not the best times for doing business. And if your birthday falls mid-May, blow those candles out with especial care. And beware the Queen of Hearts, warns Alice…

It’s going to be an interesting month, so hang on to your hat, and what’s inside it…

As we pointed out last month, this spring is for the early bird, with grand fire trines forming midday to early morning all month. There are a few showers among the sunshine, however, as that nasty Saturn-Neptune opposition gets turned into a T-cross or even a grand cross during the late evenings. The most contradictory weather is on April 5, when a grand fixed cross (Saturn-Neptune against Moon-Venus) combines with Jupiter going retro in a grand fire trine with Sun and Saturn. It’s like the good news and the bad news are tightly linked together by Saturn, so watch the world pivot and be ready to come out standing right side up. 

April 19 has a similar rollover play with a Moon-generated T-square rolling into a Mercury grand trine. When you involve the Ascendant and MC, the good aspects max early, the bad ones late. So, it would seem like a month to be up bright to greet the Sun and get your business done in daylight – then turn in and sleep through the worst of it. Astrology is truly a daily strategy, after all…you can set your alarm by it…

One final phenomenon this month is the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which happens once every two years. It’s on April 29, at 17 Pisces, and if that’s your Ascendant, take an extra precaution or two that week. For reinforcement, read about someone who didn’t…but it’s more well-known for its mundane forecasting element, predicting the next area of world conflict…

That's who will cash in on this year's bountiful spring skies... 

As we all slip and slide through this dicey March Mercury retro/eclipse period, the good news is a coming season of warm and inspiring grand fire trines, thanks to a hovering Jupiter-Saturn trine engaged for several days at a time by the Sun, Moon, and inner planets. It’s a welcome runner-up to last year’s Trines of Spring that brought an especially-blest crop of babies, from princeling Barron Trump to the little Brangelina. The coming hot dates are, in order: Venus (March 5-11), Sun (April 3-12), Mercury (April 19-24), Mars (June 4-10), and Moon (3/20, 4/16, 5/13, 6/10). And, with Saturn opposing Neptune in all, turning that fiery triangle into a virtual Cupid’s bow (or kite) pattern, the heart will be both predator and prey, so proceed with caution as the pulse races and the imagination runs deceitfully wild.

But know, now: each and every day it’s the early bird that gets the worm, because regardless of where the other planets are, you get a grand fire trine twice a day, as the Ascendant and Midheaven come into mutual aspect with Jupiter and Saturn, never later than just after lunch, generally much earlier. The exact time steps back four minutes each day, and here’s the framework for just when the big windows of opportunity flash open, local time, everywhere in temperate latitudes like New York, Paris, San Francisco:

The Ascendant (best for making smashing personal appearances, or just launching your day) makes the grand fire trine/Cupid's bow at only 8 AM on March 1, retreats to 6 AM by April 1, until it’s into the wee hours at 4 AM on May 1. Set your alarm for then. The Midheaven (best for career and fame efforts) makes the aspect at 2:30 PM on March 1, regresses to lunch hour 12:30 PM by April 1, and backs well into mid-morning at 10:30 AM by May 1. That’s when to clinch the deal. To find the exact time of the aspect on any particular day, just subtract four minutes for every day past the first of that month.

And of course, during the periods when the Sun, Moon, or other planets are also involved, those moments pack a double dose of intensity. Mark them on your calendar now, so you’re ready to ride when they arrive…just watch out for that Saturn-Neptune sting in the center – to make sure you’re the bird and not the worm…

Good news, after we get through the crazy news, that is... 

First, the good news. The hovering scythe in the sky, at its most intense at the New Moons of January 18 and February 17, has seen its worst, and by the first week of March Jupiter will have rushed forward to make a nice trine to the winter’s lonely and hostile Saturn and some forward motion may finally be in the wind, particularly during those moments when the angles or the Moon step in to make it a grand fire trine. But, it’s been an interesting two months, from lust in space to death in the casino, with the flames of war licking at ever-new and expanding tinder around the world, and shifting alliances making the old ones look ever less secure.

Now, the crazy news. The way out of all this is not a firm simple step, but through three weeks of Mercury retrograde February 13 through March 7, which makes life’s road rather icy and slippery, when over-steering and under-gauging is rife. And, overlapping that, it’s eclipse season again, with a lunar eclipse March 3 at 13° Virgo-Pisces and a solar eclipse March 18 at 28° Pisces. Wherever you’ve got Virgo or Pisces, expect a sudden shift in matters concerning the planet or house you’ve got there, so brace yourself. It doesn’t have to be a problem, but it does require you be ready to rearrange and rebalance at a moment’s notice, relying on yourself alone, particularly in this Saturn-Neptune opposition/scythe climate where delays are everywhere and untruth is rampant.

Finally, speaking of Virgo and Pisces, that’s of course where the lunar nodes are right now, so where those fall in your chart, expect “karmic” revisitations of old family ties, whether it be from blood relatives or just your larger life threads that resurface to remind you of who’s in your bigger, cosmic family…

After the last Mars-Uranus conjunction, this was all that was left... 

A few years ago, in the pages of the Llewellyn Journal, we advised travelers to avoid Indonesia for the season and “just buy a nice gamelan music CD” instead. Shortly after, the greatest tsunami on record hit the area.

More recently, in our editorial page here at AstroCocktail, we subsequently suggested the next coming disaster would be a hurricane in the U.S., and that very next season, Katrina struck.

How did we manage it? It’s all about the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which happens once every two years, and where it falls on the map. Where it occurs right overhead, at the Midheaven or in the tenth house, that’s the north-south band of the world that will experience the most noteworthy disasters, violence, wars, and other Mars-Uranus type outbreaks. It gives fair warning – and has been on the mark for the beginnings of World War I and World War II, Hiroshima, the record Hawaiian tsunami of 1946, as well as Indonesia and New Orleans. The next one happens April 29, so it’s time to take a look and find out the places to avoid for a while until the worst is over. To find out details, see our new February feature, and adjust your travel plans accordingly (clue: this one’s only too obvious), at:

Snapshots In The Sky: Mars-Uranus, Redux!

The results don’t necessarily happen right away this spring, but usually down the line, from a few months hence right up until the next conjunction, and the later they come, the more intense they tend to be. Actually, the opening days of spring will be something of a relief, a relative respite from the January-February double-pulse of the celestial scythe we’re in, and as Jupiter and Saturn come into trine in March and April, ancillary grand fire trines formed with Moon, Mercury, Sun, and Venus all open up lots of possibilities for everyone. It’s going to be a bit of a reprise of last year’s wonderful trines of spring, so as February clears out, get ready to make hay while the skies shine…

Hot off the presses, astrology is making world news, more every day... 

Every day, here at AstroCocktail, we cover the daily news in both the headlines and in the skyline – sometimes they’re both on the same page and sometimes not. You can consult our daily crawl at another site, a thumbnail of what’s happening for the day, while on this page we try to focus on the long-range picture in combination with notable daily events that focus on astrology.

But wherever you look, however you look, astrology is ever more in the news. That ranges from the likes of star-mad India, where marriages are matched by the planets in public and private and there’s a personal astrologer at the touch of a cellphone, to the more skeptical sides of the West where market forecasters and insurance companies regularly undercut the doubting conventional wisdom. Perhaps that’s because the current scythe is making events seem so out of control that people look to something else for an explanation, or maybe we’re all just getting a better grip on the larger context in which we live. Of course, the planets really don’t care, they just go about their orbits, like powerful little Pluto, in disregard of what we say about them.

But though the stars may not be listening, we are, and we find the correlation of above and below so very compelling. Like the weather, you can’t change it but you sure can benefit from watching it. This last month and next we have been in the heart of big changes (as we have mentioned well ahead of time) and they’re not easy for a lot of people. A lingering Saturn-Neptune opposition makes the deceit and distrust of authority ever more relevant, and Jupiter’s square to Uranus brings on change in abrupt and overwhelming bursts, which may be only a bit allayed as it comes into trine with Saturn. That’s a serious conflict between changing political (Jupiter-Saturn) and social (Uranus-Neptune) evolution, not an easy ride. Despite all, it seems the increasingly up-tempo march of time may promise improvement upon what was there only recently before, so the stormy skies of change may be blowing in some good, for some signs more than others, though it may yet take a while.

In the meantime, keep an eye on our newslinks as we cover the impelling skies churning the cauldron of events below. It’s a reminder that life is not stagnant (these are interesting times, for all that implies) and worth waking up every morning to peek at today’s, and tomorrow’s, headlines… 

Stormy Weather!

When there's a tempest  on the horizon,  it could still be good news for you... 

Lately we’ve seen so many dire predictions that a lot of people have been asking us for some good news – nobody likes looming disaster. Although the coming sky looks stormy indeed, no denying that, there’s a big difference between the big picture and your own. Fortunately, the greater, whole cloth and your individual thread within it are two totally different matters.

What you need to look at is what’s happening to you, and your part in the world, not the world as a whole. Even when the odds seem against everyone in general, they can favor you specifically. That’s what astrology is so good at: separating out the different levels of destiny, so to speak, yours and others’. We can’t say here what your individual horoscope promises – only a close look at your full natal chart can do that – but we can suggest what your personal exposure might be (for sign-by-sign details, see “Under Stormy Skies,” click here). That’s because we can tell you what the general trends are and where to be careful. For the next couple of years, the contest is between established power (Saturn, whoever’s been in charge, at every level) and the rest of the world (particularly the outer planets, avatars of social and spiritual evolution). That applies from the level of nations right down to the local workplace and family. So if you know the players, you can choose to safely skirt the game or, if you think you’ve a winning hand, jump right in.

Your political, religious, or national affiliations don’t really matter. It’s not about you vs. them. It’s the past against the future -- and the future is going to win, count on it, so tend to your own. If your horoscope is a bit besieged right now, stay on the sidelines and seek safety, you’ve got enough problems. If you and yours are looking hopeful, find a new bandwagon and get on. If you’re backing the old story, you’re bound to fall, so don’t. Be a witness to the wreck, not a part of it. That’s not optional – history is chronicled by survivors, not always participants. It’s all about which side are you on, however you participate, and that crosses all boundaries. It’s not printed on your voter registration, your church membership, your passport, or your newspaper subscription. It’s written on your heart. Follow that, and with a little care the approaching tempest will rage around you and pass, an adventure you’ll relate to your grandchildren...

On Permanent Record (The Star) – Or, as permanent as palm leaves can be. Not exactly Akashic, but they supposedly tell all about everybody’s stars, in detail…

Astrologer Warns Bush (My San Antonio) – Down the column, this guy is worried about the prez and the eclipses, warns him to lay low…

Converging Cycles (Inquirer) – Gathering planetary storms are likely to do us in by, of course, 2012…can the planet be saved?…

Delivery By The Stars (Sify) – Child delivery, not UPS. Caesarians are increasingly picked by couples' astrologers in favor of natural birth, just to get the chart right…

Asteroids and Dinosaurs (AFP) – A single event in the asteroid belt unleashed the strike that destroyed the dinosaurs – it’s aftermath still threatens Earth today…

Star Songs (LJWorld) – This guy’s becoming a YouTube star, going on tour, by singing about the stars, literally…

Help For Turbulent Times (Huffington Post) – Huffington Post has an astrologer on its rolls, it would appear…

A Deal With The Gods (WTOL-11) – This Wiccan astrologer claims he made a deal with the gods, won the lottery…we wonder what the deal was…

Nearsighted (Stanford Daily) – Maybe blind as a bat. That’s what a summer birth will do to you, according to Israeli study…

Once In A Red Moon (Gulf News) – How do you tell if a lunar eclipse bodes well or ill? It’s about how the Moon’s makes her exit…and, pregnant moms need to be on the move in Fiji…

On The Cusp (Guardian) – Astrological terminology is leaking into the language more than this article suggests…

Split Personality (Forbes) – That’s what Mother Nature’s going to have this winter, according to The Farmer’s Almanac secret formula of lunar tides and planetary positions…

Edge On! (ESO) – Uranus’s rings are pointed straight at the Earth, a once in 42-year event. What does it mean?…(clue: on Uranus, it’s the spring equinox, Sun in Aries for the next seven years)…

Jupiter No Protector (New Scientist) – The big daddy of planets used to be thought to defend us from asteroid and Centaur hits. Not so, it turns out…

They Shake The Earth (Malaysia Sun) – Solar vibrations literally reach out and shake the Earth, with all sorts of effects…

Astrology Tops Football (Southern Star) – On the Web, that is. And Irish footballers are shocked!…

The Enemies Of Reason (Guardian) – They may not be astrologers, as Dawkins suggests, they may be scientists themselves, selling out…

Google Sky (Telegraph) – Put yourself in the celestial map, right on your computer screen…astrologers will love it (astronomers, too)…more here…

Red Eyes (NASA) – As Mars reaches opposition, it will conjoin warlike Aldeberan (“Watcher of the East”), like two ominous red eyes in the sky…

Burial By The Stars (Kuensel) – The astrologer picks the time, place, and those responsible for cutting up the body into pieces…

License To See (Time) – That’s what fortunetellers must have in witch-friendly Salem, MA. Regulations are easing, but not fast enough for some…

A Tainted Embrace (Agoravox) – Scientists who espouse the likes of astrology should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail…

Body Parts (Mirror) – Thin lips make for intelligence, according to one astrology website. Here’s a wrap on the rest…

Leafing Through Life (New Straits Times) – The palm leaves have your name on them, a surprisingly upcoming very old approach to astrology…

Ukraine Trained (Interfax) – Ukraine is opening an astrological trade college, approved by the Ministry of Education…

Plunge Into The Irrational (International Herald Tribune) – It’s summer, so why not? 52% of Europeans think astrology has a scientific basis, way ahead of Britain and America…

Banking On Astrology (Cambridge News) – That’s what Barclay’s Bank is doing, with surveys showing Leos and Capricorns are the most likely eager entrepreneurs…

In Your Face (Newpaper) – The ancient art of face-reading isn’t exactly astrology, unless you consider that your Ascendant is written all over your face…

Bad Moon Rising (Again) (The Star) – More on the Sussex cops beefing up for Full Moon nights…

Saturn’s Shadow Looms (The Star) – The change of Saturn’s sign is beginning to be felt all over…

Astrologer In The House? (IndyStar) – The House of Representatives, that is…Rep. Julia Carson just might have one on call…

The Enemy Of Reason (Observer-Guardian) – That’s what we all are, unless we are as rigorous as Richard Dawkins, according to Richard Dawkins…

A Dreamy Eclipse (Space Travel) – The coming August eclipse will be a colorful one, and America gets a good view this time…

Rock On (News Observer) – Astrologers Steve and Jodie Forrests’ Celtic band do “The Elves’ Prophecy.” Get back Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span, et al…

A Pair of Snakes (Daily India) – Releasing a pair of snakes can go a long way toward fixing certain astrological nodal problems such as Kaal Sarpa Yog. A bit pricey, though…

Elephant Hope (Bloomberg) – When government scientists and astrologers fail to predict the weather, there’s always Indra to turn to…sacrificing a few goats helps, too…

Demonstrable Effects (American Chronicle) – Nice piece by Kat Starwolf on the ongoing debate of scientific validity…

Celestial Workout (Syracuse.com) – Yes, it’s time for Sun-sign exercises, fitness for the whole Zodiac…oh, why not?…

Fasting For Pluto (Cape Cod Today) – Some people really care about this poor planet, sympathy for the Devil, we surmise…

Here Comes The Sun (Enter Stage Right) – It’s all about the Sun, its cycles, and so on, like a vibrating musical instrument…

Slaves Of NY (NY Post) – Man held in involuntary bondage by would-be astrologers in Queens, NY temple…

Mystic Diaspora (Inquirer) – Philippine mystics and astrologers, with their own take on Lemuria (that would be them) have a different view of these uneasy times…

Tough Times Afoot (Times of India) – Or will be, as Saturn moves into a new sign for the next couple of years. To make it better, feed some crows…

What’s It Like?… (Frederick New Post) – …to read the stars?…sweet piece, nice astrologer, condescending reporter…

For The Disabled (Times Of India) – After climbing the highest mountains, this physically challenged soul aims for the stars, to help others in the same situation…

An Auspicious Hour (Hindustan Times) – That’s when India’s first woman president, herself an admirer of astrology, will be inaugurated…astrologers all agree, predicted her win…

Unexpected Stars (Astrodynamics) – The stars of one of the more unlikely presidential candidates, Ron Paul, suggesting…well, suggesting…plus, the compassion of the president, two by Lynn Hayes at her best…

You Start With Astrology (Rising Nepal) -- …and then you continue with science and numbers, because it’s all math…some marvelous examples here…

Astrologer In The House? (IndyStar) – The House of Representatives, that is…Rep. Julia Carson just might have one on call…

The Enemy Of Reason (Observer-Guardian) – That’s what we all are, unless we are as rigorous as Richard Dawkins, according to Richard Dawkins…

A Dreamy Eclipse (Space Travel) – The coming August eclipse will be a colorful one, and America gets a good view this time…

Rock On (News Observer) – Astrologers Steve and Jodie Forrests’ Celtic band do “The Elves’ Prophecy.” Get back Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span, et al…

A Pair of Snakes (Daily India) – Releasing a pair of snakes can go a long way toward fixing certain astrological nodal problems such as Kaal Sarpa Yog. A bit pricey, though…

Elephant Hope (Bloomberg) – When government scientists and astrologers fail to predict the weather, there’s always Indra to turn to…sacrificing a few goats helps, too…

Demonstrable Effects (American Chronicle) – Nice piece by Kat Starwolf on the ongoing debate of scientific validity…

Celestial Workout (Syracuse.com) – Yes, it’s time for Sun-sign exercises, fitness for the whole Zodiac…oh, why not?…

Fasting For Pluto (Cape Cod Today) – Some people really care about this poor planet, sympathy for the Devil, we surmise…

Here Comes The Sun (Enter Stage Right) – It’s all about the Sun, its cycles, and so on, like a vibrating musical instrument…

Slaves Of NY (NY Post) – Man held in involuntary bondage by would-be astrologers in Queens, NY temple…

Mystic Diaspora (Inquirer) – Philippine mystics and astrologers, with their own take on Lemuria (that would be them) have a different view of these uneasy times…

Tough Times Afoot (Times of India) – Or will be, as Saturn moves into a new sign for the next couple of years. To make it better, feed some crows…

What’s It Like?… (Frederick New Post) – …to read the stars?…sweet piece, nice astrologer, condescending reporter…

For The Disabled (Times Of India) – After climbing the highest mountains, this physically challenged soul aims for the stars, to help others in the same situation…

An Auspicious Hour (Hindustan Times) – That’s when India’s first woman president, herself an admirer of astrology, will be inaugurated…astrologers all agree, predicted her win…

Unexpected Stars (Astrodynamics) – The stars of one of the more unlikely presidential candidates, Ron Paul, suggesting…well, suggesting…plus, the compassion of the president, two by Lynn Hayes at her best…

You Start With Astrology (Rising Nepal) -- …and then you continue with science and numbers, because it’s all math…some marvelous examples here…

Comet Strike (Wired) – Comet Swift-Tuttle, which brings the Perseid meteor shower, is aimed in to strike Earth or Moon on Aug 14, 2126. Will we be ready to deflect it?…

If Your Name Starts With… (Times of India) – By the Indian system (sidereal), Saturn is just entering Leo, and all kinds of changes are in store. Love the name vowel/consonant list…very exotic…

Satellite Of Love (Japan Times) – Full Moon = less testosterone for men, but for women, it’s a conflicting story. It gets higher when they’re in love…all about “reading” the Moon…

77 Solar Returns (Times Of India) – India’s most prosperous and jolly starcaster celebrates a big 77…and opines on luck of 7 and 13…

Antigua Skies (Antigua Sun) – Is Green Castle Hill an ancient star monument like Stonehenge? Locals believe so, seek preservation…

Extramarital Stars (Times Of India) – Feeling unfaithful? Got the seven-year itch? Plan to do something about it? Check for the astrological signatures of infidelity…

Serious Business (Phayul.com) – That’s how Tibetans treat astrology…you’d better add a touch of optimism, too, if you don’t want to come back as a worm…

Lastly, Go To An Astrologer (Rediff) – “There is no better person than an astrologer who can predict future.” If you want to get rich, that is – very droll…

Puck Power (Matrix) -- Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck wraps up his birthday and his new marriage together into a roll on lucky 7-7-7...

I-Phone Astrology (Astrodynamics) – Releasing a major technology product on a retrograde Mercury is usually a Microsoft move, not Apple…

Bodes Ill (Merienews) – Keep your eye on that spectacular Venus-Saturn conjunction all this month, because it might not be as friendly as it looks…

Timing Your Kid (Zee News) – Listening closer to your astrologer than your gynecologist is ever more the rage…

Only One Day of Summer (The Sun) – That’s what Brit forecasters are predicting, including pop astrologer Mystic Meg…

The Final Days (N.Y. Times Magazine) – The end of the world (the Mayan astrology 2012 version) on the pages of the Times. With 5,000 words in the Gray Lady, it’s now a mainstream conspiracy theory…

Killer, Victim Born Same Day (PR Web) – Slain pregnant woman was exactly four years to the day older than her killer – both born May 21...

Financial Crisis (Conspiracy Times) – In 2012…well, there would be one, if the world were coming to an end, it only stands to reason…

Pluto Looming (Amherst Bulletin) – Astrologer Dan Cerow recalls previous Pluto aspects that led to trouble in the 1830s…

Thai Fortunetelling (Chaing Mai City Life) – From soup to nuts, astrology comes in just behind palmistry…

Defibrillator Return (Reuters) – The “Anniversary effect”: is this the same phenomenon as solar and lunar returns? Something is going on here, but we don’t know what it is…

Can Predictions Make You Rich? (Money Control) – Well, we suppose it depends on who's making them. Astrologers, Cassandra?…accuracy may not be the determiner…

Be A Manglik (Times of India) – Astrologically afflicted? Could be your ticket to fame…

Cosmic Clocks (Collaborate With Fate) – Celestial rhythms – are they timing us or are we timing them?…or…

Moon Illusion (NASA) – The Moon is big, suddenly, really big…and who knows why?…

Lucky Sevens? (Big Sky Astrology) – Is 7-7-07 at 7:07 really the hot date for marriage everybody says it is? Wedding chapels are booked solid. Maybe so, maybe no…better watch that Mercury retro, or even the pre-nup won’t hold up…

Dangerous Americans (The Sun) – Those hustling Yanks are hoodwinking serious Brit investors in schemes that take the stars into account…we are shocked, truly shocked…

The Political Connection (Economic Times) – Does belief in and reliance on the likes of astrology and numerology increase as you gain power? Could be…it seems to grow as many rise in both politics and business…

Stars Over Congress (Town Hall) – By a margin of three to one, that’s how many more people have faith in astrology than in Congress, according to Gallup poll…

Planetary Sailing (Sail World) – Bet on Barker to win the America’s Cup because of a favorable Pluto, according to New Zealand race forecaster…

Eris Sparks Discord (Planetary Society) – Discord, appropriate to its nature, about the nature of planets. You don’t limit the number of mountains, do you?…

Musical Stars (Radio Netherlands) – Catch the last installment of this great series by Concert pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider…

NASCAR Stars (ChurchOfTheGreatOval) – Here’s an astro-wrap on this week’s Michigan competition, driver by driver…

Presidential Prospects (Times Of India) – According to the astrologer, this woman will soon lead the Subcontinent, nukes and all…hubby is surprised…

Eris Jumps Ahead Of Pluto (National Geographic) – Eris (formerly Xena) is bigger than Pluto, according to its discoverer, but with its tiny moon Dysnomia not bigger than Pluto plus chunkier moon Charon…

Codigo Astral (Hispanicwire) – New Miami TV show will feature three different astrology “cases” each episode and then address live viewers’ charts. This is the wildly popular format drawing viewers in Baghdad, Beirut, and across the Mideast…

Astrologers Issue All-Clear (Gorkhapatra) – In a change of pace, starcasters reassure the public that it is safe to proceed this month, nothing untoward is expected…in Nepal, anyway…

Hands Of The Homeless (Santa Barbara Independent) – A striking oddity, not even astrological, but compelling…

Astrology Doctors (New Kerala) – Actually, it’s about gemstones, but if it cures what ails you, what’s a few rupees?…

A Pivotal Set-Up (Minyanville) – Stock analyst Jeffrey Cooper takes a look at some complex cycles (astrological among them) which are about to converge…

Kiwi Gardens (The Nelson Mail) – Growing by the Moon…it's biodynamics in the Southern Hemisphere…

Cops Come Out (The Argus) – On the full Moon…or they will do this summer. Brighton police will be beefing up once a month based on lunar crime research statistics…more here and here...

Bush’s Horoscope (Huffington Post) – What got him elected, again? A Huffington Post columnist wonders, in trepidation…it wasn’t him, it was the dire outlook, so it had to be him, says we…

Quakes and Storms (Hindustan Times) – Burmese astrologers are teaming up with meteorologists to predict storms. Science finds when, astrology finds where…

Dire Predictions Come and Gone (Pennsylvania Times-Leader) – The end of the world just keeps getting put off…

Blue Moon (NASA) – This full Moon is blue, and here’s a wrap on it, again, even more extensive, from NASA…

Master Of Discipline (News Post) – No, not that kind – astrological discipline, and this master has a king’s itinerary to plan, planet by planet, especially during election time…

Harvest Moon (Inside Bay Area) -- Physicist-turned-farmer is a big believer in moon planting — a biointensive cultivation technique that takes into account how the moon sits in the sky before planting or transplanting crops…

The Sweating Deity (Telegraph Nepal) – A statue has started to drip, and it has astrologers buzzing, crowds flocking to consider the tumultuous omen…because it’s happened before…

Digital Palm Leaves (Hindustan Times) – The palm leaf manuscripts that contain the astrological forecasts of everyone in the world are about to go digital…the Vedic version of the Gutenberg Bible, this time courtesy of Google…

Evil Lunacy (Tehachapi News) – Is that Us, or Them? It’s not entirely clear, but without doubt, it’s probably a conspiracy, and astrology is involved…

Other Pearls (eMedia Wire) – Not the oyster kind, but connected to astrology…and they’re for sale…

Stone Age Comet Impact (The Guardian) – Celestial blast wiped out mammoths, killed cavemen, chilled climate…is this the event the myths are made of, the origin of the mysterious Via Combusta?…

Resistance To Science (USA Today) – “Promiscuous teleology,” that’s what astrologers are guilty of…but at least, we’re not part of the "scientifically credulous subpopulation…” according to this study…

Child Sacrifice (Gulf Times) – On the advice of an astrologer, 9-year-old is dumped in river…Lynn Hayes covers more in her May 19 blog…in another sad tale, astrologer is held for rape…

A Christian, an Astrologer, and a Psychic… (Inspire Magazine)  …walked into a bar one night, and…well, this time it’s on a popular Brit radio show which you can catch live on the Internet next week…

Decisions, Decisions (The Guardian) – That’s the problem for this up-for-grabs Libran soccer star, as astrologers speculate on his next move…

Cosmos And Psyche (Reality Sandwich) – Nice review of Tarnas’s book, another great leap toward mainstreaming astrology, but still lacking the necessary physical linkage…keep an eye out for our review, coming soon…

Astro-lure To Gay Star (The Argus) – Pop astrologer wants gay star to move in to be close to fan base…only in the UK, and only in Brighton, home of Fat Boy Slim…

Idol Challenge (National Ledger) – Jeff Jawer grapples with tough data to pick a winner ahead of the judges…actually, astropathy works better for us, thank you (yawn!)…

Cops To Collar Screenstar, Starcaster (Daiji World) – Last year’s temple desecration controversy really was an astrologer’s plot, in cahoots with the offender…

Reinventing Themselves (The Telegraph) – Astrology: it’s newer, bigger, better and adapting to every corner of modern living to keep up with the times, from East to West…

“Chicken-pathy” (Greater Kashmir) – All ailments cured…talk about reinventing, we love the star-counting astropathy variation…Subcontinental humor at its best…

He Lied To Public (Lanka Web) – Lied about his chart, and Sri Lankans are furious about it. A vertible astro-Lankagate…the controversy has been going on for some time, this is just one wrap on it…

No Fuss (DNA India) – Mangliks, astro-controlled Caesarians, you’ve got to take it all in stride…or, in another version, life is what you make of it…

Astro-Caesarians Up (International Herald Tribune) – Pick a time, make an incision, pull out a baby with just the right chart…is there a problem? Just watch what you ask for, we suppose…

Spring Babies Dumber (Fox News) – Summer conceptions (and hence spring births) lead to lower test scores. Astrology, or pesticides? Or Fox News?…

Coming At You (Boston.com) – That bright Venus you see in the evening sky is for the moment headed straight at us, and gaining…good thing it’s in orbit…

Blue Moon (Times and Democrat) – Once in a blue moon means later this month, or does it? The dueling definitions resurface…

Karma Ball (PRWeb) – Astrology-based fantasy baseball show takes the lead early in the season…the mind reels…

Snow In Cyprus (Dailiworld) – “If you are a believer in astrology, chances are you have already consulted famed astrologer Ashok Purohit”…well, maybe not, but he did predict snow in Cyprus, in May…

Confrontational Planets (Cricket World) – That’s what made India lose in the World Cup, according to commentators at an astrologers’ convention…or was it their departure time for the West Indies?...

Oh Rapture! (PR Web) – The astrological code of when the end of the world will arrive, from a Christian clairvoyant, will be revealed…in one of twenty-two volumes – will there be time to read them all?…

The Greeks’ Fault (Express India) – Now Indian scientists are blaming the ancient Greeks for what Indian astrologers themselves would like to take credit for…

When They Leave The Hotel (France24) – That’s the moment which will reveal if the team will win the World Cup…

Back To College! (Hindustan Times) – To study astrology, now that big corporations are hiring star consultants in all sorts of industries…

It’s The Seasons (The Hindu) – Seasonal sunshine rates affect your destiny, not astrology, says this study. But what are the signs, but seasons?…

A Starry Future (Economic Times) – For Bollywood’s manglified supercouple, once Saturn gets comfy after September 2, plus some instant advice…

Iraqi Star (CNN) – Great video segment on Baghdad’s hit TV show starring astrologer-psychic Ali Al-Bakri…

Mission Mars (ExpressIndia) -- While Bollywood’s most famous manglik was getting married in Mumbai, an astrological helpline opened in cyberia for men and women afflicted by Mars…

The Lowdown On Cho (Astrodynamics) – A fine wrap on the chart of the mass killer, with lots of thought-provoking details in the commentary following the article…

Tsunami And More (Times of India) – That’s what this astrologer says is on its way this summer, in the East…

Zapping The Moon (Astrobio.net) – When the Moon (near its full) moves through Earth’s magnetic trail it picks up static electrical charge, which could pick up dangerously around 2012, at expected record sunspot peak…

Starry Claims (LankaWeb) – Using astrology to make a political point gets more outrageous every day…

Stocks To Shift (The Street) – Economists looking at astrologer Donald Bradley’s pioneering work predict “fulcrum sessions” early next week…

"Big Problem In Phnom Penh"  (Bangkok Post) – Plus, the former killing fields will be short on rice this year, but waitresses will flourish…

A Long Walk To Pluto (Register-Mail) – It’s way out in the ‘burbs, all the way to the mall, by this fun student scale of measurement…

The Astrologer’s Opinion…(Times of India) – “…on any particular point might differ…” That daily-recurring AstroCricket line reminds us that betting on the endless cricket World Cup in the West Indies is far from over…

Your Lucky Day (Hindu News Service) – Friday the thirteenth, for sure. It may have a bad name, but some astrologers are going out of their way to differ…

The Occultation Of Mars (ExpressIndia) – When the Moon covers Mars, it will be visible mainly from India…mangliks take note…

The Black Dog Is Back (Telegraph India) – The Labrador and the German Spitz will help strengthen your Saturn…for Venus, feed a white one…

Celestial Inducement (Mangalorean) – Inducement of birth, that is. More Caesarians than ever are chosen to get a good horoscope, as doctors and astrologers team…

Going Postal (Star News Group) – Australia has a new line of colorful astrological postage stamps…

Sun To Max (BBC) – Yes, as reported earlier, this next sunspot peak is going to be a monster, biggest in 1000 years, in time to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar…

Women Astrologers (The Rising Nepal) – They want equal rights! Sounds strange to those of us in the West, where the majority of astrologers are, in fact, female…

Tax Signs (Save Or Spend) – How much will you get back from the IRS this year? That may depend upon your sign, according to this new accounting survey…

Sorry Saturday (Toronto Star) – Newspaper starcaster said it would be a bad weekend for Virgos – it was enough to ruin their day…

Why Question God’s Will? (NDTV) – Philosophy is on the minds of this Subcontinent conference, as all around celebrate their astrological new year…

Intrusion From Mars (Arab News) – That would be the BBC on TV, following the local astrologer's competitive warnings. Funny commentary on America from a jaundiced outside view…

The Stars Of Music (Radio Netherlands) – Don’t miss this fascinating four-part radio music series in which concert pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider examines the combinations of his two disciplines…

Bad Hair Month (Pattaya Daily News) – A sudden rise in earthquakes: is it the planets that are tousling our global toupee?…

God’s Conference Table (N.Y. Times) – Amusing and informative thoughts on the newly-discovered giant hexagon on Saturn…

Winds Of Change (Nation Multimedia) – First Burma, but this time it’s Thailand that local astrologers are worrying about…

Turned Away (The Argus) – Being a famous seer doesn’t help your place in line at maternity hospital…

Explosive Conclusions (DNA India) – That’s one of many arrived at during conclave of 650+ astrologers and vaastu professionals…

Astro-Addiction (The Telegraph) – Astrology TV 24/7, marriage to a banana tree to defuse afflicted Mars, starcasters with laptops in tents, the Subcontinent is aflame with planetary pursuits...

Sea And Stars (Sunday Times) – Whom the sea has claimed, an astrological consultation cannot bring back…

The Hex On Saturn (Scientific American) – There’s a mysterious hexagonal ring around Saturn’s north pole. Follow links here for great moving photos…and northern lights on Jupiter…

And The Cup Goes On (Gulf News) – In the United Arab Emirates, astrologer Ajai Bhambi's will be giving his predictions before every game…

More On Marriages (Victoria Times Colonist) – Matching Sun signs for marriage statistics doesn’t cut it statistically. Would matching them for divorces do better, we wonder?…

Nicole And Petri Dish (Hecklerspray) – That’s been the successful road to conception, with a little help from Keith’s input, says starcaster…

More Rumbles From Burma (IPSNews) -- "It is the year of the generals up to September; after that it will be the year of the people," a renowned astrologer in Rangoon told reporters…

Bush Doomed? (Javno) – The “Tecumseh Curse” (which happens to label years with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction) raises its head again. Will Bush live to see out his term?…

Can’t Buy You Love (IBN-CNN Live) – At least astrology can’t, says this new study from the Daily Mail…statistics don’t lie, do they?…

Pluto Elevated (Delaware Online) – Yes, they actually did it. Pluto is now officially a planet again whenever it "passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies." Without doubt, governor Bill Richardson will sweep the Pluto vote…

Hates Full Moon (CantonRep) – This guy really does, he just hates it – bah, humbug…but, as he says, he gets paid for it…

The Astrology Channel(s) – Eight of them, and it’s not enough – it has “rationalists” in an uproar, but the media wants more space to fill the demand…

A Toss-Up (IBN Live) – Despite in-depth astro-analysis of all the players on every team, including detailed, changing numerical odds, the World Cup has no planetary favorite…

Storm Warning (NASA) – The next sunspot surge is already taking shape, and it’s going to be a monster – just in time for the Mayan end-of-the-world date, 2012…

The Fall Of The Mighty (The Irrawaddy) – That’s what Burmese astrologers are predicting about their military government, probably risking their lives in the process…

A New Spring (Montreal Gazette) – You may think spring begins on March 20 with the Sun at 0 Aries, but England’s Meteorological Office has officially changed all that. It’s now March first, really…in the spirit of Daylight Savings Time...

When The Snake’s Head Points North (N.Y. Times) – That’s when you really know it’s spring, down Mexico way…

Older Than The Moon (UFOArea) – What would life be like without lunar transits, yet…was anybody there?...

Fantasy Batting (emediawire) – ...and betting...now there’s an astrological show that focuses entirely on predictions for fanatasy baseball leagues…serious ether, this…

Cricket Futures (Reuters) – Lay down your bets on the coming World Cup, the stars are speaking, in some places with numerical odds…

Strange Eclipse (NASA) – How about a solar eclipse from farther away than Earth? The ultimate annular, great pic…

Planet By Fiat (Slashdot) – Arizona has decided to introduce legislation to reinstate Pluto as a planet, in the home state of its discoverer…

Bad Moon (The Star) – Here’s all kinds of things you should avoid around this coming solar eclipse, some you surely hadn’t thought of…

Star Brawl (The Money Times) – Elizabeth Hurley’s second wedding in a week to get the astrology right didn’t go so well for some…

Planets Of Stone (UFO Area) – Perfectly spherical, carefully-arrange giant stone balls – found in Costa Rica, Mexico, Aruba, Haiti and Bosnia. Were they representations of the solar system from ancient astrologers, other civilizations?…

Remarried By The Stars (BBC) – Actress Elizabeth Hurley and husband Arun Nayar got hitched again, this time without Mercury retro, in palatial splendor, on advice of Indian astrologer…

For The Record (Baltimore Examiner) – Astrology is a study, not a belief or a religion, says Project Hindsight director Robert Schmidt at NCGR’s national six-day conference on geocosmic alchemy in Baltimore…

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb (Hartselle Enquirer) – Is that saying about March really astrological?…fun cartoon link, which explains it…

Borrowing With The Stars (Easier.com) – Pisces and Aquarius got no problem with living on loans, among other spending anomalies, says new financial study…

Try The Stock Market (Hindustan Times) – This time, blame it on Saturn and Uranus, a very Western approach for folks who usually exclude the outer planets…

You’ll Never Get Rich (The Age) – Being an astrologer, at least in Australia. But hey, you might try outsourcing yourself to India…

Choked For Channels (Financial Express) – Airwave channels, not spiritual channeling…there’s not enough room for all the astrology stations grabbing for this star-crazy market…

Moon Spirits (Bloomberg) – “Biodynamics,” an approach to winemaking that utilizes lunar phases, among other things, is producing some tasty (and profitable) vintages…

Astral Medicine (Eureka Reporter) – Modern docs take a trip to famed Tibetan hospital that uses astrology to determine diagnosis, treatment…

Eclipse Shock (Washington Post) – Several noted astrologers pull no punches in discussing what this set of eclipses may bring…

Heavens Aligned Against Wall Street (Reuters) – Think you’ve seen the worst of it with this last 400-point drop? Not so, says veteran stockcaster Arch Crawford…the eclipses have yet to do their worst…

Gung Hay Fat Pig (Asian Week) – Did Anna Nicole really use Susie Wong as a nom-de-Neptune to get drugs?…in the year of the Golden Pig, anything is possible…

The Washington Monument (ReadExpress) – It’s an astrologically-aligned Egyptian obelisk installed by Masonic occultists. You didn’t know?…

More Piglets (Washington Post) – Lots more, China is being flooded, apparently by parents who nine months ago had this lucky astrological year in mind. Now that’s planned parenthood…

On The Right Side (Reuters) – In star-driven Burma, when the astrologer said switch sides of the road, everybody did…

It Brings Big Fortune (Press Enterprise, Bloomberg News) – Everything astrological with some feng shui and geomancy thrown in has investors on a new, boar spoor…

The Myth Of Fingerprints? (Financial Express) – Palm-leaf astrology starts with your own unique thumbprint, then tracks down a pre-written destiny…

A Blast From The Eighth House? (MedGadget) – Or are these recent Sun-sign surveys real science, sort of? Statistics don’t lie when they’re on your side, only someone else’s…

God Or Science? (New Observer) Both sides of this ongoing debate want no part of astrologers, as usual...

Star Power (Lanka Business) – When you can’t help having a powerful horoscope that makes you a “grave threat,” what do you do? Get the sack, and lurk…

Piglets (Hindu.com) – China is going to be full of them, as everybody wants a kid born in this lucky year…that’s why condom sales are down…

Don’t Go Near The Water (The Telegraph) – That’s what the astrologer told his parents -- and they listened -- but then there was an unexpected change of plan…

Comfort From Above (Korea Herald) – Cold comfort that is, when you consult dubious starcasters on the market ahead…

Astrology Belief On The Rise (USA Today/AP) – The hipper we get to science, the greater the appeal of astrology, even when we try to explain it away…

U.N. Urged To Repel Asteroid (CNN/Reuters) – Astronaut/cosmonaut group wants world action against interplanetary threat…there’s a seriously bad transit on its way…

“Lifebuoy” In The Sky (Shanghai Daily) – That’s what astrology has been to this practitioner, who says Chinese astrology and Western astrology are very similar - they just use different ways to explain destiny…

Know Your Stars, Know Yourself (Dayton Daily News) – “What past lives?” Says veteran Ohio starcaster. She’s been in the business long enough to know she’s just, well, in the business…

Moonworks (Columbus Dispatch) – Ancient Ohio earthworks were built to keep track of the Moon and its nodes…

Caeserians By The Stars (DNA India) – More grim tales on the dangers getting carried away with celestial reverse-engineering…

Bonkers In Bollywood (EarthTimes) – U.S. group says manglik Indian superstars shouldn’t be leading their fans astray with the likes of astrology…

A Herd Of Swine (The Star) – Well, just call it a porcine plateful, of Year Of The Pig prophecies, that is…

Opposites Attract (Seacoast Online) – Even opposite systems of astrology agree that there’s something about the Other, celestial or otherwise, that we need to wise up to…in more ways than one, so vive le difference…

Saturn’s Rule (Hindustan Times) – This winter’s harsh Saturn domination will last until 16 April’s New Moon, according to this source, by which time the current scythe will give way to a grand trine…

Monsoon By The Moon (Book Of Thoth) – Indian weather forecasters have been getting official help from astrologers lately, with great success. Here’s more detail on how they approach it…

Bad Models, Or Good? (American Scientist) – Much of modern computer forecasting has the approach of astrology…sometimes that’s actually good, sometimes not…

Pigs Marry (Reuters) – Well, it’s the Year of the Golden Pig, isn’t it, so why not?…

Bears Will Win Superbowl! (eworldwire) – Oops, back to the drawing board, or why horary astrology takes a lot of practice…

More Lunacy (The Independent) – Cops, nurses, other social workers know it, scientists deny it, and that crazy Superbowl happened beneath it…

Birth-Fixing To Beat Mars (TelegraphIndia) – How to avoid a manglik? Drag the child from the womb before the bad aspect occurs…we’ve covered this one before, in many countries, and it’s on the rise…

Pigs In Trouble? (Wedlok.com) – It’s the Year of the Pig in Chinese astrology – but also known as the “Year of the Widows” according to tradition. It could be worse…a manglik pig?…

Cricket In The Sky (Cricketwukup.com) – Not the bug, the game. Here’s an astrological overview of the coming season in the West Indies…

Dog Stars (PR.com) – It would appear Brit celebrity starcaster Russell Grant has gone to the dogs…

Looking For Love (BBC) – First, you consult your astrologer, only then do you consider all the rest…and now, you can do it all online…

Your Fortune (USA Today) – In an environment of dreadful fortune, “Your Fortune” on TV has phones ringing off the hook, in Baghdad…

Marry A Tree (New American Media) – A manglik kind of thing, if you believe in this stuff, says feminist journalist…you have to do the tree first, divorce it later, to be sure, say astrologers…

A Dip Beneath The Moon (Hindustan Times) – It’s the full Moon that makes the water particularly beneficial, or so they say, in a full but dwindling river…a lakh, BTW, is 100,000…

Pluto In Toyland (Reuters) – The demotion may have hit rugrats harder than you think…

Gaslighting (ElsaElsa) – From the film of the same name, a great take on Saturn-Neptune, which we all are suffering from these days, from the indomitable and insightful Elsa…

Pluto Debate (PBS) – Yes, it’s still going on, with the likes of Stephen Colbert weighing in, and movement for change still rising among scientists…

Sunset Celebrations (National Geographic) – A village has been found near Stonehenge that dates from the period, complete mini-henge that reverses the original’s midsummer/midwitner sunset/sunrise focus. Maybe summer festival-goers went there after to party, or for a matching winter feast…

Stars Over Panama (Sacbee.com) – Strongman Manuel Noriega, who is being released from prison this year, was originally caught in an astrological web, despite his own consultations…

Boom Times For Soothsayers (International Herald Tribune) – In troubled Lebanon, a good futurecaster like Michel Hayek can find himself more in demand than a politician, in politics…

Put Your Money Where Your…(N.Y. Times) – Astrologers should be logging in here and betting on all their predictions, not just doom…so far, they’re not…

7-7-07: Lucky Numbers, Unlucky Stars (Wedlok.com) – Eva Longoria’s picking that date to wed, but maybe not so wisely. Or, you could try getting hitched on your favorite politico’s birthday, like 51 couples just did…madness…

Lunar Evidence (The Independent) – Detractors have denied the obvious for years – that the Moon affects human behavior. Now the evidence is in, and further serious research is underway…

Natural Mystic (The Age) – That would be tennis champion Roger Federer, whose astrological fifth harmonic shows his natural talent, along with additional spiritual qualities viewed by other types of analysis…

From The Grave (Indymedia Estrecho) – Anna Nichole Smith’s dead son’s real parentage could be revealed by Mars position, instead of digging him up for DNA…

No Pigs On TV (Pigprogress.com) – It’s going to be the Year of the Pig, but not on the telly in China, for fear of offending Muslims, complain the folks at Pig Progress…you can’t make this up…

Technology For The Soul (North Country Times) – That would be Kaballah, whose teachings include astrology and, of course, Madonna…

Pluto: I’m Not Dead Yet (Houston Chronicle) – Or so says the Chronicle’s “SciGuy,” who has been hearing rumblings of discontent about the exiled planet…

Shakespeare East (Sydney Morning Herald) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been repainted in the Korean cardinal stars: North, South, East, and West…

Manglik Revealed (Rediff) – The meaning of this partnership “affliction” now made famous by Bollywood’s Brangelina is explained by one of India’s most prestigious practitioners…

Lunar Transits (NASA) – While the Moon is transiting you, what’s transiting it? A whole lot more than you might think, and more everyday...

More About Witchcraft (The Guardian) – The essence of anti-astrology law was to stop people pretending to something that wasn’t supposed to be real to begin with…got that?…

Not Just Footballers (The Times) – It’s not only in sports that mere Sun-signs give an advantage, according to a fascinating analysis of Encyclopedia Britannica data…

Born By The Stars (The Hindu) – Burma’s new capital, only just and very suddenly founded according to astrology, takes shape in the jungle…we’re still keeping an eye on this enigma…

Music Of The Spheres (Asheville Citizen-Times) – Literally, this musician creates his performance according to planetary positions at the very instant…

It Works For The Weather (ExpressIndia) – Astrology-assisted (and, BTW, government-funded) weather forecasting seems to be hitting the nail on the head…

Masses Gather For New Moon (BBC) – Tens of thousands are crowding to bathe at the confluence of three of Hinduism's holiest rivers - the Ganges, Yamuna and the Saraswati – as Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Venus form rare grouping in Capricorn…update: make that 18 million...

Swedes Believe It… (Innovations Report) – …that astrology is a science, something most astrologers wouldn’t claim. Twenty-three percent, up six since last year, most of them women…Intelligent Design is also gaining credence…

Mars + Venus = Pheremones (Blogcritics) – So says Elsa, and well, why not? When we meet someone who hits that sensitive midpoint, whatever the season, we go nuts…

Is Manglik Really A Misery? (MoneyControl) – Now that the Bollywood secret is out, comes the question: is an afflicted Mars really deadly to relationships?…

More Dire Predictions (ClickPress) – Earthquakes, terrorists, Giuliani…psychics tend to focus on the past to project the future…

Stairway To Heaven (ExpressIndia) -- From qualified astrologers on board at call centers, to astro-calling cards, mainstreaming astrology is climbing the corporate ladder…like cellcast TV…

Two Mangliks (NDTV) – This has been the talk of Bollywood for months. Finally, two of its biggest stars will wed, despite that they’re both star-cursed mangliks…nevertheless, astrologers predict the best…

Celestial Medicine (Yemen Times) – Sometimes the faded Arabic scrawls in an old book are the only key available for a rural diagnosis…

Doomsday Clock Advances (Reuters) – Among our Dire Predictions 2007 was the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock. Now they’re moving it forward, as the threat looms higher…

Ouija Or The Stars? (Tahlequah Daily Press) – An unlikely choice, but not when you’re coming from total cluelessness. It’s a long journey, and most start somewhere around here…hey, some old guys are still grousing about Sun-signs…

Rivers Of Power (The Star) -- Whenever the planets align in the same position astrologically, pilgrims and devotees converge to commemorate this divine event…

Follow The Signs (Pensacola News Journal) – An AP writer does just that and finds, in unlikely combinations of influences, his wife…

Inauspicious Days (ExpressIndia) – Candidates file in a hurry before the bad aspects crowd in. Should you have been doing the same?…

Does Israel Need An Astrologer? (Jerusalem Post) – After the Lebanon debacle, some Israelis think they’d be better off listening to the stars…actually, as we pointed out at the time, it was their best try but still failed…

Keith’s Moon (AstroDynamics) – Is TV commentator Keith Olbermann the reincarnation of Max Headroom? We’ve often thought it, and so does Lynn Hayes after examining his chart…

Her Own Destiny (The Rising Nepal) – In Kathmandu, where visiting starcasters live in posh hotels, Nepal’s first recognized woman astrologer treads a more humble path…

Comet Harbinger? (Spaceweather.com) – Comet McNaught may turn out to be the brightest in centuries, visible in daylight. Right at the Mars/Pluto conjunction, what does it portend? Spaceweather.com is keeping daily track…

Bucks By The Sign (CityNews) – Now it’s a Brit accounting firm that’s run through its customer by Sun-sign, this time to see how well they hold on to their assets…

Planetary Dance (N.Y. Times) – While the other planets pirouette above, this one we're on is morphing like crazy…great interactive graphic…

A Star-Crossed Tale (CNET) – The sometimes rococo tale of astrologers Kelli and David Fox, who founded astrology.com, sold it, sued it, and started their own competitor…a very retro story, Mercurywise…

An Ohiorelated Asteroid… (Columbus Dispatch) -- …which, "in a challenging aspect to Saturn” appears to reveal that Florida will beat the Buckeyes 24-21…[final turned out 41-14, Florida and Saturn took this one big-time...]

New Age Pandemic (WebCommentary) – The evil that is astrology, unmasked, with the Magi clothed as would-be scientists…

Plutoed (American Dialect Society) – Voted word of the year, it means knocked off the block, appropriately akin to its mythical and planetery namesake…

Solunar Tide Clock (Science Daily) – The tides are governed by the Moon and Sun, but until now, amazingly enough, only the Moon’s rhythms were used in clocks to time them…

Lifting The Curse (Monsters And Critics) – “Desperate Housewife” Teri Hatcher’s good transits appear to have put the period to her cramps…

Sony Has Stars On Its Side (PSXtreme) Dutch astrologer says competitor Nintendo has Scorpio problems that keep it behind in the game wars…

Edwards The Equivocator (AstroDynamics) Stargazer Lynn Hayes is less than sanguine about fellow Carolina Dem’s presidential prospects…

Billionaire Horoscopes (Forbes) – Forbes is back again this year with more charts of the very wealthy, by celebrity astrologer Michael Lutin, whom we just interviewed here…

Full Moon Forecast (Tripmaster Monkey) – For the new U.N. Secretary General, that is, the first Asian to hold the post since U Thant, by Madam Zee (no, not the original)…

Stars Point To Serial Killer (Times Of India) – Astrologer pointed the way, but cops ignored it, until the body parts began turning up…

Attack On The Dollar (Blogging Stocks) – Friends and foes alike will conspire to drive down the market 20% by the spring Mars/Uranus conjunction “Crash Cycle”, says market 'caster Arch Crawford…

Jupiter To Bring Foreigners (Visit Montenegro) – 2006 was a hard year in Montenegro, but in 2007 they’re going to come flocking in to spend, thanks to Jupiter’s influence on the national horoscope, according to Gorica Jankovic from the Astrology Academy…and why not? It's beautiful there...

Thai Tribulations (Nation Multimedia) – Various Thai astrologers are looking for floods, earthquakes, riots, revolution, and war in 2007, and that’s just in Thailand alone…

Standing At The Crossroads (Virginia Pilot) – That would be Hampton Roads, where astrologer sees America getting richer and fatter (from Jupiter), and Britney Spears without rose-colored glasses…

Stars Will Save King (DNA India) – The king of Nepal will be saved by the celestial bell this year, say starcasters, despite the coming elections and continuing strife in this war-torn nation…

Ahead And Behind (The News) – And here’s a Pakistani take on what the astrologer’s got right (dengue fever, floods) and wrong (no fashion revolution) and what’s ahead for next year…

Last Minute Predix (Auburn Journal) – Everybody wants one, and this one covers everything from beef to bowling alleys, but penned by yet another journalist without an astrological clue…

Astrology Alive And Well (Playfuls.com) – Despite Pluto’s demotion, Burmese affirm that both they and their dictators trust perhaps dangerously too much in the stars…

“A Bloody Mess” (Bernama.com) – Mixed with prosperity, of course, and especially volatile if you mix astrology with numerology for 2007…

Got It Wrong (N.Y. Sun) – New York market astrologer missed the boat on 2006 predix, so maybe his sour outlook for next year means good news…or…

77 For 2007 (The Independent) – From the pre-modern seven-planet system on, here’s more sevens than you can shake a stick at…

Indian Starnomics (Economic Times) – Subcontinent soothsayers savor the sparkle of gold this year, based primarily on Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon’s nodes (Rahu and Ketu)…

Keeping It Up (emediawire) – Insurance companies are having a new-found field day with customers' Sun-sign statistics. This one is about erectile dysfunction (ED)…Capricorn creeps away with cold comfort, Sagittarius rises above the rest…

The Last Witch Trial (Portsmouth Today) – The last trial of a woman for witchcraft in England ended in a conviction – in 1944! A leading astrologer is fighting to clear her name…

New Age Redux (Inside Bay Area) – Freer forms of spiritual expression are quietly making a comeback after suppression by recent  fundamentalist backlash…

Bad Luck Holiday (Kuensel Online) – It’s December 27, Ngenpa Guzom, the meeting of the nine evils among other afflictions, and such bad luck they’ve declared it a holiday…

More Blood (Blogcritics, JapanVisitor) – Blood type and hair color, among other characteristics, are like Sun-signs in Japan and Korea, but this is the first time we’ve seen them on condom machines…

Paid Predictions (Newind Press) – Astrologer was paid to predict opposing party political failure – shades of William Lilly, John Gadbury, and the English Civil War…

What’s Your Tribe? (emediawire) – Your Sun-sign qualifies as your “tribe” according to tattooists…been watching too much “Survivor” we reckon…

The Island King (Asian Tribune) – Last word on that famous star: one of the astrologers/Magi may have traveled all the way from Sri Lanka…

The Beginning… (The Korea Times)…is half of everything, and Korean fortunetellers can’t agree on when the astrological year begins…kind of puts a kink in your forecast…

Trying, Terrifying… (IOL, South Africa) – That’s the forecast for South Africa from this sidereal astrologer (hence the difference in Saturn’s sign positions)…

It Was Jupiter (The Missoulian) – The Star of Bethlehem, that is, according to this particular set of non-astrologers…or maybe something else…

Christmas Or Humbug? (Ithaca Journal) – Was it the planets or a scriptural quote that pinned the location to Bethlehem? Not such a happy place then or now…

April Fools (Daily Times) – The first Christmas and New Year were simultaneous in April -- and BTW this is the year 2000 -- by astrological testimony (!), according to this mysterious missive from Malawi…

Magi On The Mark (SunStar) – Get back Herod, Sadducees, and Pharisees, it was the star-struck astrologers who were truly hip to the trip…

BIG Solar Cycle (NASA) – The biggest in 400 years, since records have been kept, is coming up. Solar ejections, magnetic storms raining down from heaven, disrupting who knows what, like we needed this on top of it all…

Yuletide Greetings (The Guardian) – When speaking to the likes of astrologers (a dubious lot, no doubt), you should respect the believer…an odd answer to the “War On Christmas” and other multicultural holiday non-issues…

Astrological Overload (Chicago Tribune) – The reason Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tank Johnson was busted for packing heat? It’s Pluto, and an overload of Sagittarius…

Lutin U.S.A. (Vanity Fair) – Michael Lutin takes a long, hard look at America’s stars and sees stormy weather ahead -- and concludes we get what we deserve when we don’t pay close enough attention…

New Year Check (Monsters and Critics) – Taiwan’s curious crowd in to take a peek at the new year before it arrives…

Lure Of The Stone (Financial Express) – The power of fortune in the guise of astrological gemstones has the guys in thrall, too, says survey…

Star Insurance (Business Wire, UPI) – Sun signs appear to correlate with all kinds of critical things, from retirement to auto accidents, according to Allstate and other major insurers’ data…

Political Fortune (Capitol Weekly) – Here’s a running series of astrological outlines of California politicians, by astrologer David Jones…who’d have thought?…let’s see more astral accountability like this…

Above Bethlehem (Jamaica Gleaner) – Was it a star, a planetary conjunction, something else? And exactly when? Here's one of many looks that pop up during this season…

Surge To Merge (India News) – With this prime Jupiter lineup crowding the skies, couples are jamming the streets to get hitched under favorable aspects…36,000 in Delhi alone...

Triple Alignment (Star Tribune/AP) – Jupiter, Mercury, and Mars make their most spectacular mark in the early dawn…

Storms Make Comeback (Houston Chronicle, Spaceweather.com) – Hurricanes will make a comeback next summer, because already the Sun is erupting again, so duck, look up for auroras now…

SAD Leo? (Blogcritics) – Are Leos more inclined to suffer from SAD (seasonally affected disorder) and could use a little light? Elsa thinks so, and with Saturn hanging there, it feels right to us…

Leonids To Sparkle (Bangor Daily News) – The Leonid meteor shower on the 17th will dazzle near the dark of the moon, plus other planet views for the month…

Mysteries Of Love (Seattle Times) – In India, they do it by the stars…among other tidbits...

Coup Leader Talks (Monsters And Critics) – The “ET” Thai-Burmese astrologer connection is revealed in harrowing tales by general who headed overthrow, in new book…

The Star Option (KeepMeCurrent.com) – Maine starcaster offers alternatives as political candidate on election day...

Mercury Transit Live (Exploratorium) – The transit of Mercury will be broadcast in real time from Kitt Peak November 8…one of only 14 this century, all fall within several days of 8 May and 10 November during its retrograde inferior conjunction…

Astro-TV (eMediaWire) – The UK’s “Astrology Internet TV,” featuring Brit astro-boffin Russell Grant and guests, launches at 14:15 on Oct. 31, with retro Mercury, a VOC Moon, 28+ Capricorn Asc. We're told Grant actually chose this chart...

Astrology Or Astronomy? (Canada.com) – Trouble is, people can’t tell the difference. Like Hollywood’s take on rocker and scholar Queen guitarist’s new book, which is actually about astronomy and the (nice sound/graphics here) big bang…

AstroTree (AstroTree.com) – A special online community network for pro astrologers and fans alike has just launched. It’s a chance to interact with the best in the business, now lifting off, so sign up on the ground floor…

Astrologers’ Plot (Hotair.com) – Skycasters are conspiring to overthrow our rightful Republican government this election, using Google, claim neocons. Something dark and spooky called the astrologers’ club…

Charting The Stars (Lawrence Journal-World) – Doing celebrity horoscopes, what an original concept. But it’s news in Kansas, so that’s news…

Domo Aregato Astrology (Japan Times) – His middle name is Percival, he studied at the Joseph Campbell Foundation, his thesis on shamanistic Okinawa…

“New Age” Is Old (News Blaze) – After all, astrology was integral to founding Christianity and later, Islam, says Britain’s “psychic agony uncle”…

Transit Of Mercury (NASA) – The perfect conjunction, when Mercury is actually outlined against the Sun’s face, will happen on November 8^th…a rarity, only about a dozen per century…watch what you say that day...

Signs Of Music (Radio Netherlands) – Is Bach’s Prelude in C Major the ultimate Virgo piece? Read, listen, decide…composer/pianist Gary Goldschneider holds forth on that, lots more…

Fake Fortunes (Ohmy News) – Just because you’re in Kathmandu doesn’t mean you’re in touch…

Star Treatment (The Times, UK) – Leos with bad backs, among others, should immediately head for the Maldives…whose president just happens to be an astrologer…

Turncoat Astrologer (Christian Post) – Former starcaster is warning kids against his earlier tendencies…

Soccer Births (Deseret News) – Is it astrology, or is it seasonal, or is that the same thing? For an in-depth look...

A Growing Dwarf (Daily Southtown) – Since the demotion debacle, Pluto is more popular than ever…

The Cricket Astrologer Portal (PR.com) – OK, you didn’t know there was one, did you? We’re not sure there is, from looking at it twice...

Bollywood Nostradamus (Newindpress) – Whether it’s astrology or tarot, the Subcontinent’s film industry won’t make a decision without him…

The Demise Of The GOP (Astrodynamics) – Why so many scandals? Why has the Republican House become Pandora’s Box? Maybe it’s Eris in Aries…

The ‘Zona Zone (ASStarnet) – L.A. astrologer transplanted to Tuscon finds plenty of charts waiting to be cast…

Junta Seizes Astrologer (DVB News) – Military dictators in Burma imprison famed starcaster for predicting end of brutal regime, itself notorious for relying upon astrology…

Osama’s Horoscope (Rediff) – Tales of a fortune-telling undercover operative, and what’s happening now…Osama chooses his dates carefully…

Saudis Just Say No (Reuters) – Powerful clerics warn media that reading the stars is “un-Islamic”...

Nuke Blast Imminent (Daily Telegraph) – North Korea is about to detonate an atomic bomb, claim Hong Kong astrologers...well, that one just came true only two days after we posted it...

Planetary Politicos (North Brunswick Sentinel) – Mayor and three councilmen born days apart…a coincidence?…chart details outlined by local starcaster…

Desperate Housewives (Riverfront Times) – On an astrologer’s doubtful advice (try casting the chart for the date mentioned, you’ll see), these women went nuts, wound up in court…

Back In The Sky (Northwest Arkansas News) – Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite “The Planets” is back in orbit thanks to Pluto fracas…

Czech Out The Stars (Belfast Telegraph) – Prague used to be chock-a-block with astrologers, and it’s still got plenty of evidence of it…makes you want to go visit…

God Or The Devil? (Greater Kashmir, American Chronicle) – Some believers find astrology anathema, others see in it the language of God…

Of Sea And Sky (Minivan News) – Maldive Islands president is astrologer, scholar, voice of nature all combinded…

Rumsfeld And The Goddess Of Discord (Astrodynamics) – Oh, we do love Lynn Hayes’s takes on people in the news…and a spin on Xena-turned-Eris, included…

Hired On A Horoscope (Mumbai Mirror) – Producers look at the birth data first, before putting a new star on the screen...but they deny it...

It Was All About The Signs (Journal-Register) – From The Police Blotter: outgoing Chicagoan who could guess your sign, loved astrology, found strangled…where it is just one of those common, endearing details of life…

Wedding Crunch (Times Of India) – Not many auspicious times to wed this season means 32,000 will be crowded into a few fortunate days…chaos is forecast…

Strange Moonlight (NASA) – They say it’s Harvest Moon, we’d say it’s a Hunter’s Moon (in October, in Aries), but it’s most peculiar in ways you never thought, a sight to behold…

Storm On Uranus (Hubble News) – The Hubble telescope has spotted a huge storm on Uranus, worth keeping an eye on…the last new storm on Jupiter marked the Lebanese war…

Pluto Is A Planet (Town Online) – That’s what this couple says, so does their grassroots website of that name www.plutoisaplanet.org -- and they’ve got plans…

Stars In The Arena (Inside Bay Area) – Andre Mallis is astrologer to the stars…sports stars, that is, especially bats and balls. Says New York City transplant, moved to Berkeley, “I'm like a cosmic umpire. I get 80 percent of my calls right…"

Eclipse On Equinox (Times Of India) – This has been an especially auspicious New Moon, according to Indian tradition, reports Lucknow Univ. professor…

Number Nine…(Nation Multimedia) – Whatever role the mysterious astrologer “ET” played in bloodless coup, lucky nine made it fine…but another astrologer says it might cause bleeding…

Defile Scandal A Plot (Times Of India) – India’s huge temple ruckus, involving major Bollywood actress, may have been an astrologer’s scheme all along, say cops…

Balmy Or Shivery? (Chronicle Herald) – Depends where you’ll be this winter, says yearly astro-forecast in The Farmers’ Almanac. In Canada, expect balmy, but down in the lower 48, lots colder…

He’ll Be Back (The Age) – Now we know what Thaksin’s astrologer is telling him…not to worry, he’ll be back, next year…

After The Coup (Bangkok Post) – Some Thai astrologers are officially happy to see star-crossed PM out and gone and forecast better days, but others are afraid to talk…nobody know what his astrologer is telling him…

The Mug On Mars (ESA) – The supposedly alien-constructed “Face On Mars” has a creepy-crawly on it…and it’s us…

In The Shadow Of The Sun (NASA) – The whole planetary shebang is wrapped up in the Sun’s protective blanket…only now are we just peeking outside…

Thaksin Tipoff  (World Politics Swatch) – Our favorite star-crazed prime minister heeded eclipse warning from mysterious Burmese astrologer “ET” and beat it for New York one step ahead of the tanks…

“Guest Star” Was Supernova (China Post) – Ancient astrological annals charted what now appears to have been the oldest recorded cosmic mega-burst at what is currently about 0 degrees Sagittarius…on Dec. 7, 185 AD…

Maine Planets Expand (University Times) – Instead of pulling Pluto, Maine roadside solar system model will add others, perhaps stretching it the entire length of the state…